Anki Changelog

What's new in Anki 24.04

Apr 1, 2024

Update Qt to 6.6.2. On macOS, this should fix issues with Japanese input.
Update FSRS & export benchmark API by @L-M-Sherlock in #3056
Keep previous FSRS parameters if they get worse when optimizing by @abdnh in #2996
The I/O editor better preserves images quality when zooming in, and supports two-finger pinch/drag on mobile platforms. By @krmanik in #3052
Improved pan/zoom in image occlusions: middle mouse button, space, or ctrl/shift/alt with two fingers by @krmanik in #3080 and #3066
Improvements/simplifications to FSRS optimal retention feature by @L-M-Sherlock in #3065 and #3072
When updating all FSRS parameters at once, exclude suspended cards.
Move most FSRS options into their own section of the deck options.
Don't hide FSRS optimization section.
Show a warning in the optimization section if all presets haven't been optimized for 30 days or longer.
Show preset and original deck in card info by @abdnh in #3055
Use system certificate store by @abdnh in #3050
Ignore some extra chars in no-combining search by @abdnh in #2929
Add "select all" shapes tool by @krmanik in #2981
Maintain original IO cloze order in editing mode by @abdnh in #2987
Fix occasional 'failed to fetch' message popping up.
Fix pasted images failing to download from some sites.
Add by creation date review sort order by @abdnh in #2957
Add log-in button to preferences screen by @lucasscharenbroch in #2994
Add support for offline builds by @knobix in #2963
Add support for python logging by @cav71 in #2969
Add View Files button to Check Media screen by @abdnh in #3006
Allow > inside HTML attributes by @vaxr in #2918
Americanize "synchronisation" by @hnvy in #2935
Change default font in code editors by @abdnh in #2985
Check required review count for FSRS after filtering by @abdnh in #3019
clamp interval before fuzz_bounds by @L-M-Sherlock in #3024
Clear out old FSRS progress as new operation starts
Default to 'Bury Card' action consistently by @abdnh in #2950
Do not reset original_due when card stays in filtered deck by @abdnh in #2988
Don't urllib.unquote when using requests by @vaxr in #2943
Fix 'ignore this update' not working.
Fix processEvents() reentrancy bug in progress manager window handling by @kieranlblack in #3030
Fix a 'protocol wrong type' message sometimes popping up.
Fix circular import in legacy importer by @abdnh in #3007
Fix code completion in Qt forms by @abdnh in #2993
Fix corner rounding of alignment buttons in editor by @lucasscharenbroch in #2989
Fix crash in Reviewer by @mjuhanne in #2945
Fix deck names differing in case being duplicated in CSV import by @abdnh in #3008
Fix error after notetype merge + downgrade.
Fix flicker when hovering over deck list by @abdnh in #2958
Fix Image field not hidden until user selects an image by @abdnh in #2960
Fix importing of Mnemosyne due dates by @dae in #2936
Fix inconsistent count in optimize/evaluate.
Fix MathJax editor not opening when navigating into blocks by @abdnh in #2953
Fix maybe_coalesce_note_undo_entry() by @abdnh in #2992
Fix misaligned image occlusions in RTL languages by @abdnh in #3018
Fix note id mix-up when resolving notetype conflicts by @RumovZ in #2940
Fix notetype conflict resolution by @RumovZ in #2967
Fix preset: search ignoring cards in filtered decks by @abdnh in #2997
Fix progress manager window race condition by @kieranlblack in #3029
Fix regex skipping over all src except the last by @vaxr in #3021
Fix text input custom style wiping out base user style by @kieranlblack in #3031
Fix title of Auto Advance section by @abdnh in #2949
Fix toolbar button shifting on hover by @BlueGreenMagick in #2928
Fix undo handling of group and some other IO tools by @abdnh in #2931
Fix visual behavior of modal buttons in editor by @lucasscharenbroch in #3009
Fix windows build issue by @qxo in #2947
Fix/ignore revlogs before Forget entry by @L-M-Sherlock in #3002
Flip indent/outdent buttons for RTL by @abdnh in #2930
FSRS - Ignore revlogs before date while optimizing by @Luc-Mcgrady in #2922
Honor NINJA_STATUS if already set by @knobix in #2984
Improve appearance of resize handles in I/O by @krmanik in #2919
Improve typing deck_due_tree() by @nix6839 in #3003
Include details on what's missing when a NotFound error is triggered.
Increase parent limits in custom study when 'limits start from top' is enabled by @RumovZ in #2971
Initialize Browser.aspect_ratio earlier to fix AttributeError by @abdnh in #2924
Make a deep copy in addcards/set_note by @lucasscharenbroch in #3013
Make image occlusion's option buttons tabbable by @PLameiras in #2966
Make sure editor note is saved before triggering buttons by @abdnh in #2995
Make tags and tag suggestions able to be styled by add-ons by @glutanimate in #2941
More precise percent of days studied by @user1823 in #2889
Refactor text attribute button components by @lucasscharenbroch in #3012
Shift the default network timeout back to 60 seconds.
Show message if current FSRS parameters are optimal by @abdnh in #3014
Show total review count when optimizing FSRS parameters by @abdnh in #3027
Tweak type-in-answer filter hack by @lucasscharenbroch in #3010
update FSRS to v0.2.0 by @L-M-Sherlock in #2977
Use card.reps - 1 when calculating fuzz by @dae in #2933
Use our translation of 'Discard' by @abdnh in #2920
Containerize anki-sync-server by @jeankhawand in #3036
Fix alert not appearing when FSRS parameters input is focused by @abdnh in #3053
Adjust HTML editor / add-on config editor font by @abdnh in #3054
Fix/set pretrain_only by fsrs_items by @L-M-Sherlock in #3051
Use Card %d for IO template names by @BrayanDSO in #3049
alert when the resp.weights is empty by @L-M-Sherlock in #3061
When cards become due on the congrats screen, switch to overview, not back into study.
Adding a note to the import options to indicate that leech and marked tags will be removed if disabled by @arbyste in #3067
Fix full sync dialog failing to appear.
Fix consolas not being used in editor.
qt/aqt/init.py: Skip GL library workaround for FreeBSD by @knobix in #3071
fix: cloze_numbers_in_string treating {{c0::}} as valid by @BrayanDSO in #3059
Display deck names when deleting by @escribapetrus in #3058
Rename "Forget" to "Reset" (#3078) by @vasll in #3088
Reset original id when cloning notetypes by @RumovZ in #3089
Use rmse in comparing parameters by @L-M-Sherlock in #3087
Fix summary string for notes that failed to be imported by @RumovZ in #3092
Disable ligatures in type-in highlighting by @abdnh in #3093
Sync-server: add option to store hashed passwords by @laalsaas in #3083
Refactor offline build process and add offline generation of Sphinx docs by @antecrescent in #3082
Replace deprecated method chrono::NaiveDateTime::timestamp_millis by @ijqq in #3097
Update optimal retention tooltip, and add a few extra translations.
Possible workaround for sporadic toolbar height warning.
"Full sync" -> "One-way sync".
rename sm2 retention to historical retention by @L-M-Sherlock in #3101
Use "importing-added" string in importing detail table by @snowtimeglass in #3104
Fix mpv loadfile syntax change by @kelciour in #3105
Improve timer interval display (#3096) by @AntoineQ1 in #3100
Fix incorrect search results after preset used.

New in Anki 23.12.1 (Dec 28, 2023)

New in Anki 23.12 (Dec 27, 2023)

FSRS:
Minor improvements to the algorithm (FSRS 4.5). While not essential, we recommend you re-optimize your FSRS parameters after updating. By @L-M-Sherlock and @asukaminato0721 in open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-rs#111 and open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-rs#119 and #2901.
The deck options Save dropdown now lets you optimize all presets at once.
Rewrite the optimal retention code. The new code will give different results. By @L-M-Sherlock and @asukaminato0721 in open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-rs#122 and open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-rs#124
The search used for optimizing presets is now remembered. By @abdnh in #2827
Exclude suspended cards from optimization by default.
When using 'deck:*' in the search, reviews from deleted cards are included.
The reschedule-on-parameters-change option is now shared between all presets, and will default to off each time.
When cards are rescheduled multiple times without reviews, extra entries will not be added to the review log.
Fix some bugs in sorting by FSRS retrievability.
Clarify learning steps recommendation by @user1823 in #2832
Ignore filtered revlog in time of last review by @L-M-Sherlock in #2845
Fix FSRS scheduling when add-ons manually convert cards to learning by @L-M-Sherlock in #2849
Better approximate average retention/ease/difficulty.
Don't use SM2 memory state when cards are manually introduced.
Fix incorrect search being used when evaluating parameters.
Recompute FSRS memory state when cards moved into different deck.
Correct the description of FSRS Difficulty in Stats by @user1823 in #2888
FSRS ignores revlog entries with time = 0 when calculating time taken. By @L-M-Sherlock in #2870
Keep two decimals for stability by @L-M-Sherlock in #2873
Improve calculated difficulty for cards that skipped initial learning.
Catch NaNs in FSRS parameters.
Deck options screen:
Added a new v3 option to limit child decks by their parent, when clicking on the child. By @RumovZ in #2824
Added an auto-advance feature. Activate from More menu; configure via deck options. By @abdnh in #2765
The deck options screen now opens faster.
Change link to manual in help screen from icon to text by @Gustaf-C in #2886
Make help button more obvious, and remove hover animations.
Add a globe icon to global settings in the deck options.
Fix some RTL issues in help modals by @abdnh in #2857
Do not close web pages when Esc is pressed and a modal is open by @abdnh in #2894
Other scheduling/review-related changes:
When rescheduling is disabled in a filtered deck, you can now choose different delays for again, hard and good. Set to 0 to have that button immediately remove the card.
The 'preview new cards' option in custom study now uses note-added order.
Don't restrict answer key shortcuts to alphanumeric characters and a few symbols.
Include elapsed_secs in learning card state by @Gustaf-C in #2862
Fix cards showing up due in the past in a filtered deck.
Fix filtered deck ordering of intraday learning cards and reviews by @abdnh in #2828
Support all MathJax modules in review screen by @abdnh in #2836
Add hint for zero minutes in filtered deck by @Gustaf-C in #2887
Fix relative overdueness order error in filtered deck.
Image occlusion:
Add keyboard shortcuts to Image Occlusion, and fix a number of issues. By @krmanik in #2809
and #2847
Fix image occlusion not showing up in Qt5 by @hikaru-y in #2829
Don't show an error when opening add screen when the existing I/O notetype is invalid.
Fix overlapping I/O icons in some languages
Fix changes to groups of I/O masks not saving by @abdnh in #2878
Fix switching of add & history buttons when selecting IO notetype by @akashreddy03 in #2833
Fix IO card count by @abdnh in #2884
Import/export:
Allow importing/exporting with/without deck configs by @RumovZ in #2804
Fix CSV importer dropdowns not updating after changes by @RumovZ in #2885
Fix inability to search for existing notes in CSV import screen by @RumovZ in #2898
Fix broken HTML in CSV import screen.
Editor:
Fix image overlay not closing when clicking outside on Qt6.6 by @hikaru-y in #2861
Clear editor's internal copied text on cut/copy by @abdnh in #2866
Fix Mathjax can only be pasted once by @akashreddy03 in #2869
Improve confirmation message in Add screen by @abdnh in #2903
Fix macOS clipboard issues by @msisovic in #2900
Improve visibility of clicked buttons in editor by @Gustaf-C in #2841
Card info:
Show due date of buried/suspended cards in card info by @abdnh in #2820
Hide "position" in card info when card not new.
Show actual due date of learning cards in Card Info screen by @abdnh in #2865
Bring card info window to top if card info action used again by @akashreddy03 in #2896
Browser:
Ensure cloze numbers sort in order when sorting by card template.
Fix sorting by due column in notes mode.
When sorting by due, intraday and interday intervals are no longer separated. By @abdnh in #2840
Calculate elapsed days for intraday learning cards in browse screen and relative overdueness sorting.
Platform changes:
Update to PyQt 6.6.1 on all platforms.
Platform CSS has been reimplemented. Standard selectors like .win and .mobile should continue to work; more obscure ones that weren't documented will not. By @abdnh in #2854
Automatically disable sandbox on Qt5 PyPi/packaged builds on Linux, as is required on modern glibc versions.
The Qt6 Apple Silicon build now correctly declares it requires macOS 12+ to run, instead of crashing on startup.
Update licensing info of a few third-party modules by @antecrescent in #2850
Mention environment variable YARN_BINARY in documentation by @antecrescent in #2851
Other:
Improve keyboard handling and accessibility of dropdown boxes by @grepgrok in #2811
Resolve some accessibility issues for tag options buttons by @grepgrok in #2787
Ensure deck browser fetches collection data in the background.
Fix sync status check blocking collection access when network offline.
Ensure correct endpoint is used when syncing from Rust. By @sartak in #2864
Ignore rescheduled cards in old stats page by @user1823 in #2863
Do not add a fallback field reference if front side contains conditionals by @abdnh in #2859
Ensure progress windows get cleaned up.
Fix mpv idle notification not using main thread.
Fix mpv not working out of the box in win32 source build.
Handle invalid install timestamps in add-ons.
Offer to save changes when card layout screen is closed by @abdnh in #2899
Make the error dialog shown when an error occurs more friendly.
Refresh model list when legacy addon adds notetype by @kieranlblack in #2825

New in Anki 23.10.1 (Nov 10, 2023)

New in Anki 23.10 (Nov 1, 2023)

Notable changes:
Anki's version numbering scheme has changed to year.month(.patch).
Quite a few add-ons will need updates to support the Qt 6 version of this release. Some porting notes are available.
Support for FSRS (which improves upon the scheduling provided by SM-2) is now integrated into Anki. You can compute the model weights directly inside Anki, and no longer need to use custom scheduling. If you have previously used FSRS, please delete the text in the custom scheduling section before enabling FSRS, and ensure the helper add-on has been updated to the 23.10 version if you are using it. By @L-M-Sherlock with help from @dae and @asukaminato0721 in #2633, #2654 and https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs-rs.
Anki now has built-in support for creating image occlusions. Select the automatically-added "Image Occlusion" notetype in the add screen to use it. Glutanimate intends to update his add-on soon to work with the new system. By @krmanik, with help from @glutanimate, @hikaru-y, @abdnh and @dae in #2367, #2485, #2600, #2602, #2649, #2689, #2705 and more.
.apkg imports are able to merge changed notetypes, and can exclude scheduling data. By @RumovZ in #2612
Performance improvements to things like browser loading in the official builds.
You can now customize the video driver in Qt6 in the preferences, which can help to work around graphical issues. @abdnh in #2643
Add an option to stop the timer on answer by @abdnh in #2673
Allow searching for missing custom data properties by @abdnh in #2626
Support searching for custom data strings by @abdnh in #2634
Support for the v2 scheduler has been dropped.
.apkg exports now default to the new format.
New cards can now be gathered by deck then random note.
Smaller tweaks/fixes:
Add a backend method to add notes in bulk by @abdnh in #2659
Add ability to tab to DuplicateLink by @SteelColossus in #2646
Add profile name in profile deletion confirmation message by @chandraiyengar in #2722
Add Sphinx documentation generation functionality by @gsingh93 in #2720
added Translator by @platynowy in #2653
Allow full screen mode on new Qt6 drivers by @abdnh in #2660
Allow saving window position when window fullscreen on Qt 6
Better error messages when csv file is in the wrong format
Change “Delete Note” shortcut to cmd+backspace by @montyevans in #2614
Check DB now fixes invalid UTF-8 in tags.
Close import log page on error by @abdnh in #2639
Display a more friendly message when one or more add-ons fail at startup
Do not show [object Object] in import log by @abdnh in #2636
Don't rely on the presence of revlogs to decide whether deck configs should be imported.
Fix a11y issues with Badge component by @adeleke5140 in #2721
Fix an error when repositioning tags (thanks to @abdnh)
Fix an issue caused by adding a colon to the start or end of a deck name by @swektr in #2748
Fix answer button tooltips not reflecting configured shortcuts by @abdnh in #2657
Fix error when closing Find Duplicates screen early by @abdnh in #2669
Fix intermittent browser error triggered by an early resize event by @abdnh in #2671
Fix misleading warning when changing notetype from/to cloze by @abdnh in #2744
Fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' by @virinci in #2723
Fix pasting from external programs not working after copying text inside the editor.
Fix reversed float left/right icons
Fix some issues with undo/redo in mask editor by @hikaru-y in #2649
Fix typo: notetypeId → noteId by @glutanimate in #2615
Fix unable to save field dialog if certain fields are deleted by @swektr in #2663
Fix unescaped HTML in type-in-the-answer by @abdnh in #2658
Implemented support to audio_did_seek_relative by @evandrocoan in #2632
Reduce shaking of bottom bar by @abdnh in #2734
Rework media syncing to make it a little faster, and avoid duplicate errors when your password has changed. #2647
Skip template checks in Fields screen by @abdnh in #2670
Support AVIF by @nihil-admirari in #2630
Support Qt.TextFormat.MarkdownText in aqt.utils by @abdnh in #2675
The "edit current card" window is now a main window, which fixes some shortcut keys on macOS. By @abdnh in #2732
Tooltips for CSV import and import page refactoring by @RumovZ in #2655
Tweak browser column labels to card type, note type by @Gustaf-C in #2751
Change export notes' parent window in card browser by @kelciour in #2761
Fix Linux install script CWD check by @virinci in #2775
Make it possible to silent uninstall with WinGet by @kelciour in #2757
Refresh reviewer as the day rolls over by @abdnh in #2756
Update to Qt 6.5.3 on Windows/Mac
Fix error on 'Previous Card Info' when deleting a note by @abdnh in #2790
Fix HTML editor not displaying properly when expanding field by @hikaru-y in #2792

New in Anki 2.1.66 (Aug 27, 2023)

Windows and Mac builds have been updated to the latest toolkit version, which will hopefully fix some crashes/bugs.
The v3 scheduler is now the default for new users.
When imports complete, a summary window is now shown (thanks to Abdo).
Use a different approach for detecting copy+paste from Anki fields, which may fix some crashes.
The minimalist/reduce motion toggles should no longer affect card content.
Media check now automatically extracts images that have been embedded in fields.
Handle importing of legacy AnkiDroid backups.
The built-in sync server can now be built without Python if you prefer.
Add keyboard shortcut for legacy stats (thanks to Luc).
Accessibility improvements (thanks to Derek and Kenny).
Fix addon update dialog showing twice (thanks to Rumo).
Fix bold toggle not working in certain circumstances (thanks to mmjang).
Align code blocks to left (thanks to shunlog).
Make weekday font smaller for Chinese locale (thanks to mmjang).
Improve performance of invalid ID fix in DB check.
Fix main window geometry/state not being restored in some cases (thanks to Abdo).
Handle invalid float mtimes in DB check.
Fix total note count not being logged in apkg import.
Report actual error when DbError occurs.
Fix two issues with MathJax editor (thanks to Hikaru).
Don't fail silently when an empty csv is imported.
Fix two issues that can cause editor fields to behave incorrectly (thanks to Hikaru).
When cards are in intraday learning queue, don't use original due.
Fix "Add-ons possibly involved" message never appearing on Windows (thanks to Abdo).
Add partial support for Hangul keyboard shortcuts during review (thanks to Christopher).
Disable add-on buttons when no field is focused by default (thanks to Abdo).
Fix toggleable editor button styles (thanks to Abdo).
Fixed a sporadic error in the review screen (thanks to mjuhanne).
Fixed an error that could occur when syncing between newer and older clients.
Fixed tab order in find&replace screen (thanks to Gabriel).
Various other minor fixes and behind-the-scenes changes.
Dev related:
Fix incorrect handling of locals in debug console (thanks to Rumo).
Add did-add-field-hook analogous to did-delete-field (thanks to 3ter).
Fix run-qt5.15.bat (thanks to Hikaru).
Support more mime types for add_extension_based_on_mime (thanks to BenYip).
Make set_config_help_action work with submodules (thanks to Abdo).
Exclude Fabric's large canvas dependency (thanks to Kavel).

New in Anki 2.1.65 (Jun 6, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.64 (May 24, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.63 (May 15, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.62 (May 2, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.61 (Apr 6, 2023)

Improvements to the V3 scheduler:
Added a global option to stop the review limit from limiting new cards (thanks to Rumo).
You can now enable review burying without new burying again (thanks to Rumo). There are some caveats - please see the bury tooltips in the deck options.
Ensure good is at least previous+1 even if low hard factor set.
Other features/improvements:
You can now exclude certain fields from unqualified searches via the Fields screen (thanks to Abdo).
The tag area in the editor is now shown with a dropdown instead of a splitter (thanks to Matthias).
You can now adjust the current deck in the stats screen (thanks to yellowjello).
Add a button in the preferences to reset window sizes (thanks to Abdo).
Passing an invalid profile name on the commandline will now show profile picker instead of an error.
You can shift-click on a deck to select it as the current deck (thanks to Tobias).
You can now import decks with broken timestamps - they'll automatically be fixed on import (thanks to Rumo).
A DB check will now fix broken timestamps (thanks to Rumo).
Add time of date to browser date.
Allow Shift+Tab to move focus from tag area to last field (thanks to Hikaru).
Custom schedulers now have the deck name and random seed passed in to them, so
they don't need to extract the info from the DOM (thanks to Rumo).
Improve debug console (thanks to Rumo).
Fixes:
Fix stats calendar incorrect due to daylight savings time (thanks to Kieran).
Prevent the top bar from hiding in the stats page as you scroll down (thanks to Fabricio).
Reduce motion is now on by default, as it fixes an issue with the bottom bar failing to appear for some users.
Fix new limit in v3 decreasing more than it should (thanks to Rumo).
Fix current tag text not being saved when changing note via shortcut key (thanks to Hikaru).
Fix tags popover becoming separated from the tags field (thanks to Fabricio).
Ensure the bottom buttons aren't displayed until the custom scheduling code has finished running (thanks to Rumo).
Refresh study screen if the user toggles the v3 scheduler (thanks to Rumo).
Fix notetypes screen not being closable after adding a notetype on Mac.
Check for division by zero when calculating browser aspect ratio, which fixes an issue with i3 (thanks to Ben).
Fallback to Wayland if X11 is not available (thanks to Ingemar).
Tweaks to the build scripts to make packaging in distros easier (thanks to Euan).
Fix silent file save failures and bad default save path in Flatpak (thanks to Jack).
Fix HTML editor sometimes not properly sized when opening editor (thanks to Hikaru).
Fix error showing if user clicks in sidebar before it's rendered.
Fix backup creation for collections > 1 GiB (thanks to Rumo).
Fix black on grey minimalist buttons in Qt5 (thanks to Daniel).
Fix black on grey deck options on Qt5 (thanks to Daniel).
Export static references from sound tags (thanks to Rumo).
Fix packaged audio tools path on Windows (thanks to Abdo).
Fix a case where 'reduce motion' and 'minimalist mode' were switched (thanks to Daniel).
Fix panic with invalid sync server URL with port (thanks to Daniel).
Fix double scrollbars in deck options (thanks to Fabricio).
Fix images with non-Latin text and commas failing to display.
Fix editor text possibly being transfer to different notetypes (thanks to Fabricio).
Improve hover appearance of buttons (thanks to Matthias).
Fix inability to activate search in graphs screen on Android (thanks to yellowjello).
Fix an issue building on Windows (thanks to Kieran).

New in Anki 2.1.60 (Feb 22, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.58 (Feb 17, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.57 (Jan 29, 2023)

More UI improvements/fixes thanks to Matthias, including:
The top toolbar area can now take on the color/background of the main window.
The top toolbar appears more subtle during review.
A new option in the preferences to automatically hide the top and bottom bar during review.
A new option in the preferences to enable a "minimalist" mode that makes the UI more compact/less fancy.
A new option in the preferences to switch between native styling and the Anki theme (on Mac/Linux).
The preferences screen has been redesigned to be easier to navigate.
Syncing has also been updated:
Tweaks to the sync protocol that should be transparent when syncing with AnkiWeb, but that will break syncing with third-party servers that haven't been updated yet.
The sync server bundled with Anki has been updated, and now supports syncing media as well. More information is available on https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html.
Other changes:
Switch to a different library for handling type-in-the-answer comparisons, which should give more reliable results, and not crash with certain inputs (thanks to Rumo).
Fix introduced:x not working correctly when negated (thanks to Rumo).
Fix ctrl+enter not working when importing screen first opened.
Fix image dimensions not being correctly constrained (thanks to Hikaru).
Fix incorrect total/average in added graph.
Fix newlines not appearing when importing a csv file with HTML disabled.
Fix quotes preventing field descriptions from showing.
Fix spaces not handled properly when entering text around MathJax (thanks to Hikaru).
Fix toolbar add-on breakages and introduce toolbar tray layout & API (thanks to Aristotelis).
Fix type-in-the-answer not supported nested cloze deletions.
Increase delay when adjusting clipboard, which may improve compatibility on some systems.
Update Windows/Linux builds to Qt 6.4.2.
Fix non-Latin text wrapping in deck options dropdown (thanks to Fabricio).
Fix outer whitespace not being trimmed in type answer.
Fix the future due graph counting learning cards on the wrong day.
Fix deck options screen allowing invalid/blank input.
HTML is now escaped in the deck list.
Dev related:
Make it easier to override node/protoc binaries during a build (thanks to Mani)

New in Anki 2.1.56 (Jan 9, 2023)

New in Anki 2.1.55 (Dec 16, 2022)

New in Anki 2.1.54 (Jun 24, 2022)

A new CSV importer & exporter, thanks to Rumo:
Shows a preview based on the selected field separator.
Column mapping includes field text for reference.
Multiple decks and notetypes can now be imported/exported at once, as columns can be mapped to deck or notetype name.
Supports exporting and importing a unique identifier for a note, to use instead of a matching first field. This removes the need for the 'add note id' add-on.
Extends the header syntax so that files can specify metadata such as the desired field separator, and the mapping of fields.
The new functionality is not enabled by default, and can be enabled with a checkbox in the preferences screen. This also enables the new apkg import/export code introduced in 2.1.52. If you use the Special Fields add-on, you will need to disable this option in order to use the add-on.
Update to Qt 6.3.1:
Fixes complex-language input (eg Japanese, Hindi, etc) on macOS being flaky.
Fixes unwanted text when copying from the review screen on Windows.
Fixes a startup failure with certain Linux keyboard configurations.
Due to a change in Qt, you will need to reconfigure your columns in the browse screen after updating.
Fixes & improvements:
Accept .zip extension when importing add-ons (thanks to Abdo).
Add support for getting light/dark mode status with latest freedesktop standard (thanks to Bart).
Editor API improvements (thanks to Henrik).
Field descriptions in the editor are now shown inline, instead of in a tooltip (thanks to Matthias, Henrik and Hikaru).
Fixed a rounding issue when describing time intervals of a year or more.
Fixed an error that occurred after a one-way download fetched a collection with a different scheduler version enabled.
Fixed desktop hanging when attempting to add a new notetype in KDE (kwin).
Fixed flag names not updating after sync until Anki restarted.
Fixed inability to enter underscore in tags area on some keyboard layouts (thanks to Henrik).
Fixed undo history being cleared and error showing when double-tapping delete in Browse screen.
Provide a way for the review screen to support drop events (thanks to Abdo).
Other minor fixes and improvements.

New in Anki 2.1.53 (May 29, 2022)

New in Anki 2.1.52 (May 13, 2022)

Editor Improvements:
Ctrl/Cmd+A in tag editing area now selects all tags (thanks to BlueGreenMagick).
Fixed backspace sometimes removing multiple images at once (thanks to Henrik).
Fixed copying and pasting MathJax on Windows (Qt6).
Fixed handling of < and > symbols in MathJax (thanks to Henrik).
Fixed intermittent editor loading failures when add-ons have injected a large amount of code.
Fixed pasting of local files of unsupported types that contain spaces (thanks to Abdo).
Fixed some formatting being lost when copying between fields on Windows (Qt6).
Fixed various issues with tag editing (thanks to BlueGreenMagick and Henrik).
Pressing tab on the last field now moves focus to tag area (thanks to Henrik).
Reduce size of editor buttons on Windows/Linux (thanks to Henrik).
Tags copied from the tag editor are no longer joined together when pasted into the add tags/remove tags dialogs (thanks to Henrik).
The Qt5 Mac build now caps tag autocomplete matches to 10, as showing more is extremely slow in the old toolkit version.
Other Improvements:
Update Qt to 6.3.0, which fixes slow loading of large images, and inertial scrolling on macOS.
Fixed an error when previewing cards and selecting multiple cards (thanks to Rumo).
Fixed Anki needing to close when invalid modification times encountered by the browser on Windows.
Fixed colpkg imports not being cancellable (thanks to Rumo).
Fixed current working directory changing on apkg export.
Fixed custom browser font not being honored (Qt6).
Fixed custom study applying the previously-input limit, instead of the current one.
Fixed due graph showing wrong date for review cards in a filtered deck with rescheduling disabled.
Fixed grey background in type answer text + dark mode (thanks to Matthias).
Fixed v3 scheduler allowing one extra card when review limit reached (thanks to Rumo).
Lists on cards are now aligned to the left by default (thanks to Matthias).
Removed the highlight on the Show Answer and Good buttons.
Reset page zoom when moving between different screens.
The Qt6 Linux build now defaults to X11/XWayland instead of Wayland due to some remaining issues; you can force-enable Wayland with ANKI_WAYLAND=1.
For Developers:
The field_filter hook can now check if it's running for the question or answer side (thanks to Abdo).
Added a av_player_will_play_tags hook (thanks to Abdo).
Make it easier to search in fields programmatically (thanks to Abdo).
New Apkg Import/Export:
This build also includes a new implementation of apkg importing and exporting, thanks to Rumo. Some advantages:
Undo/redo is now supported.
Faster imports (especially for decks with a lot of note content).
Support for older clients can be optionally disabled, which results in smaller apkg files, and faster imports.
Flags are removed when scheduling is excluded.
The new functionality is hidden behind a feature flag, and not active by default. You can try it out by using mw.pm.set_new_import_export(True) in the debug console. To revert to the old behaviour, replace True with False.
Things to note:
This is new code that has received limited testing so far, so please use File>Create Backup before trying it out. Any testing/feedback you can provide would be appreciated.
While active, it is not currently possible to import/export files other than apkg/colpkg.
The Special Fields add-on will not work while this functionality is enabled.

New in Anki 2.1.51 (Apr 26, 2022)

New in Anki 2.1.50 (Apr 26, 2022)

New in Anki 2.1.49 (Oct 26, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.48 (Sep 21, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.47 (Aug 29, 2021)

Changes to the v3 scheduler:
Interday learning cards are included in the learning count again, instead of
the review count.
Interday learning cards are still affected by the review limit. Interday
learning cards are fetched first, then reviews, and finally new cards.
Filtered decks with rescheduling disabled now log reviews, so the reviews will
appear in your graphs.
Added an option to sort reviews by ascending/descending ease.
Fixed an issue where an error message could appear after undoing/redoing a mix
of reviews and other changes.
Fixed custom scheduling not working.
Other changes:
The "timebox finished" message is now shown on card answer, instead of after
revealing the next card. This should also address an issue where the message
popped up outside of review.
Added shortcut for Forget in the Browse screen.
Fixed an error being shown when there was no current deck.
Fixed incorrect quoting in duplicate search (thanks to Abdo).
Fixed deck options inverting the "replay question when showing answer" option.
Fixed an issue with ampersands in the Add Cards history button (thanks to
Arthur).
Fixed handling of audio/video tags (thanks to Hikaru).
Fixed errors playing audio when computer was slow to respond (thanks to Kelciour).
Fixed preferences screen not updating undo menu, and causing an error when
subsequently reviewing a card in the v3 scheduler.
Fixed case changes being ignored in tag rename.
Fixed error shown when DB check run on corrupt collection.
Fixed deck options prompt showing the default deck, instead of the correct one.
Fixed reposition command ignoring suspended cards.
Fixed answer button highlight on Windows (thanks to Henrik).
Fixed calendar graph day labels showing incorrectly in some timezones.
Improved validation of add-on package names (thanks to BlueGreenMagick for the
report and initial fix).
For add-on developers:
The Svelte components Anki exports should now work correctly in add-ons,
provided they exclude Svelte when bundling.
WithShortcut is now also available.

New in Anki 2.1.46 (Aug 4, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.45 (Jul 30, 2021)

Undo handling:
Most actions now support multiple undo steps. You can change a card template, delete some notes, bury a card, then undo each of those steps if you wish.
Actions that support multiple undo steps will now save the changes immediately, meaning that if Anki crashes, the changes you made in the last few minutes will no longer be lost.
Most undoable actions can now be redone, so you can undo an accidental undo.
Actions that don't support the new undo handling (eg, Check Database), will clear the undo history.
Add-ons will clear the undo history if they modify the database directly, or use routines that don't support undoing. There are some new routines available to add-ons to make operations undoable, but add-ons may need to be updated to use them.
Scheduling changes:
A new scheduler is available, with a number of improvements. Please see the 2021 scheduler page for more information.
The deck list now shows the learning count separately.
On new collections, the v2 scheduler is now the default.
Set due date uses the deck's configured starting ease (thanks to cyphar).
Browser changes, mostly thanks to Rumo:
The sidebar now has two modes. The default allows clicking on items to search for them. The other mode allows you to select multiple items at once, so you can drag & drop or delete multiple items.
The browse screen can now be toggled between showing cards, and showing notes.
When showing notes, some columns will show an aggregate over all the cards of a note.
Added an introduced:x search to locate cards first studied in the last x days.
Column rendering has been moved into the backend, and will be faster than before (but is still limited by the speed of the graphics toolkit).
A fair bit of the browser code has been changed, and some add-ons like the "Advanced Browser" add-on will need to be updated to support the new approach.
New tag icons and associated backend work (thanks to Henrik).
Added an option in the Preferences screen to customize the starting search text (eg, to start with "deck:current").
More reliably scroll to the current card.
When opening the Browse screen with an active study card, the whole deck is now shown.
Added 3 new flag colours.
Flags can now be renamed in the sidebar.
Horizontal scrolling in the browse screen is less jumpy.
Sidebar items can be dragged onto the Saved Searches area to add them as a favourite.
Editor changes, mostly thanks to Henrik:
A new editor toolbar implementation, with improved icons and handling.
The editor now provides bullet and numbered list buttons.
The editor now provides buttons to control text alignment and indent.
Sticky fields can now be toggled on/off from the editing screen.
A new API is available for add-ons, and the existing API should continue to work.
The HTML editor is now shown inline, and supports syntax highlighting, and showing opening/closing tags.
Warn user when they attempt to use cloze markers inappropriately (thanks to Rumo).
State handling:
When you make changes, the user interface should update more consistently now. Adding a new tag to a note will update the sidebar in the Browse screen for example, and when you review a card that is shown there, the columns will update.
The Browse screen no longer refreshes a search automatically. When you make a change, the column text may update, but the number of rows will not change. Deleted cards show "(deleted)" until you search again.
The main window no longer shows a "waiting for editing to finish" screen. When you make changes such as editing a note, the main window will dim, and will automatically refresh when you return to it.
The deck options screen has been reimplemented:
(Re)learning steps are now shown with units, eg 10m or 4d.
Deck options are now shown on one scrollable page.
Extra help is available for most options.
It is easy to see at a glance which options have been changed from the default, and individual options can be reverted to the default setting.
Warnings will be shown for some common issues (eg, review limit too low compared to new cards).
Some of the more advanced options have been moved to a separate "Advanced" section.
The old options can be accessed with a Shift+click, since it will take a while for add-ons to be updated to support the new screen. A new API is available, thanks to Henrik.
The deck description is now accessible via a button in the overview screen, instead of via the deck options.
Other features:
An updated Change Notetype implementation, that can match fields by name, and allows you to map a source field to multiple destination fields in order to clone a field.
Pre-load images on answer side (thanks to Hikaru).
The [...] in cloze deletions is now read as "blank" by TTS (thanks to Rumo).
The Find&Replace option in the Browse screen can now be used on tags as well.
Added a Card Info option to the review screen.
When opening deck option from the study screen, you'll now be asked which deck you want if the card is in a subdeck.
You can now choose which add-ons you want to update (thanks to BlueGreenMagick).
Support system SSL certs on Linux.
Extra checks are now done when updating a card template, such as detecting when a cloze notetype is missing a cloze directive, or two templates have identical question sides (thanks to Rumo).
Support Ctrl+Numpad Enter to add cards.
Added night mode styling to 'type in the answer' box, and improve legibility of comparison.
Sidebar search now scrolls to first match (thanks to Abdo & Rumo).
F3/F4 in card layout screen go to next/previous template (thanks to Evandro).
Fixes:
Custom study now limits the tag selection to 100 tags or fewer, to prevent errors caused by exceeding database limits.
Fixed an issue compiling on recent Python 3.9 installs.
Fixed audio getting stuck when pausing near end (thanks to kelciour).
Fixed building on linux-arm64 (thanks to qubist-pixel-ux).
Fixed Card Info screen not ignoring manual rescheduling when calculating the average time.
Fixed crash when pressing the copy shortcut with no active selection.
Fixed current review card sometimes changing when making edits.
Fixed deck options tooltip appearance (thanks to Matthias).
Fixed escaping of hyphens in searches (thanks to Rumo).
Fixed field pin status being forgotten when opening Cards screen (thanks to Henrik).
Fixed incorrect card count when removing multiple templates.
Fixed incorrect font on Windows (thanks to Kelciour).
Fixed resource leak in sound code (thanks to Kelciour).
Fixed some instances of a flash when revealing answer on cards with images.
Fixed text with single quote not being escaped in export (thanks to Ryan).
Fixed various links to the manual (thanks to cherryblossom000).
Fixed red duplicate background being included in copy+paste (thanks to Hikaru).
Fixed flags not being excluded on export (thanks to Alex).
Force x11 mode when the packaged build is run on a system that tells Qt to use Wayland, as Wayland is not currently supported by the packaged build.
Numerous behind-the-scenes improvements from Henrik and Rumo.
Other fixes and improvements, thanks to Abdo, Glutanimate, Arthur, Shaun, hkr and others.
Strip invalid unicode from filenames in media check.
Performance improvements and other miscellaneous fixes.

New in Anki 2.1.44 (May 12, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.43 (Apr 5, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.42 (Mar 10, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.41 (Mar 8, 2021)

Browser improvements:
Tags now show in a tree (thanks to Abdo).
Added a search bar to the sidebar (thanks to Abdo).
New context menu actions to rename or remove tags and their children, rename decks, manage notetypes, and rename/remove saved searches (thanks to Abdo and BlueGreenMagick).
The preview button in the browse screen has moved into the editing area (thanks to Henrik).
With the improved sidebar, a number of options have been removed from the Filter button.
The remaining items in the Filter button have been moved into the sidebar, and the Filter button removed.
Tags and decks can now be dragged and dropped in the sidebar.
Each section can now be expanded/collapsed.
“Due” now shows only cards due that day.
Added “Overdue” item.
Click on Decks to show whole collection.
Click on Flags to show any flag.
Click on Tags to show all non-empty tags.
Added “Untagged” under Tags.
Editing improvements:
tags will now be used by default instead of the previous tags, which solves some issues with multiple lines in cloze deletions and MathJax (thanks to Henrik).
The tags field in the editor now autocompletes from anywhere in a tag name, not only the start.
Invalid field content can no longer spill out into the editing area (thanks to Henrik).
Search improvements:
Searches are new rewritten into a canonical format (eg one two becomes "one" AND "two") (thanks to Rumo).
Search error messages are now much more specific (thanks to Rumo).
is:learn, is:due and prop:due now handle more cases, such as suspended cards (thanks to Henrik).
Added prop:pos search to search for new card position (thanks to Abdo).
Added a shortcut to replace part of a search with a different search (eg changing the selected deck) (thanks to Rumo).
Support resched:x for searching for cards that were manually rescheduled in x days (thanks to Henrik).
Support prop:rated/resched to search for rated/rescheduled cards over specific time periods (thanks to Henrik).
Filtered decks can now be created from a browser search, and vice versa (thanks to Rumo).
Filtered deck screen now has a link to show cards not matched by search (thanks to Rumo, Abdo).
Better ergonomics for developers (thanks to Rumo).
Graph improvements:
A number of the graphs can now be clicked on to search for the cards displayed by the graph (thanks to Henrik).
The starting day of week can now be altered in the Calendar graph (thanks to Henrik).
The Card Counts graph now supports toggling separate suspended/buried counts (thanks to Henrik).
The intervals and ease graphs now covers more cases, such as suspended cards (thanks to Henrik).
Place less emphasis on outliers in the Calendar graph (thanks to Henrik).
Ignore manually scheduled cards in hour graph.
Scheduler improvements:
The V2 scheduler no longer applies parent review limits to child decks. Previously the limits were inconsistently applied, which could lead to the deck list not reflecting the actual number of cards you’d receive when you clicked on a deck. AnkiMobile and AnkiWeb have been updated to match this behaviour, and AnkiDroid will also be updated soon. Using 2.1.41 in conjunction with older clients will not cause any problems when syncing, but you may find the deck list/review counts do not match.
The V1->V2 upgrade process no longer resets cards that are in learning, or removes cards from filtered decks.
Users on the old scheduler will now see a message at the top of the deck list prompting them to update to the Anki 2.1 scheduler.
There is no option to downgrade to the V1 scheduler anymore, though you can still do so by downgrading to an older Anki version first.
Reworked the Reschedule tool:
Split into separate “Forget” and “Set Due Date” actions
“Set Due Date” defaults to not adjusting the card interval.
Changed the “Delete Tags” shortcut; Ctrl+Shift+D now changes the due date.
Added the action to the review screen as well.
Input now remembered.
Other changes:
A basic sync server is now built into Anki. It does not yet support media. Docs are in the docs/ folder of the source tree.
The title bar on Macs will now turn dark when night mode is activated.
Deck descriptions of the congratulations screen can be enabled by turning markdown on in the deck options, but only 2.1.41+ will be able to render the markdown.
Add opus to media list in editor.
Edit/More buttons auto-hide when window is small (thanks to Henrik).
Support Alt+number to switch between clozes in the card layout screen (thanks to Abdo).
Use monospace font in HTML editor.
Improve error message when trying to nest under a filtered deck (thanks to Rumo).
Reposition dialog’s “shift cards” option now defaults to off.
Other fixes and improvements thanks to Henrik, Rumo, Abdo, Arthur, Maksim, Guillem, stayingpeachy, Daniel, khonkhortisan and Kerrick.
Fixes:
Fix the Reposition command not preserving the browser sort order.
Fix some issues causing the sync indicator to show unnecessarily (thanks to Rumo).
Fix slowdown after large “check media” report.
Fix a spurious warning about a full sync when renaming card templates.
Fix a freeze when answering a card with a missing parent deck.
Fix Anki not working after installing on Linux over a previous install.
Don’t log card resets when exporting.
Fix congrats screen not showing when learning cards were due soon.
Updated bundled lame and mpv on Windows and Mac builds.
For developers:
Add-on authors, please see https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/add-on-porting-notes-for-anki-2-1-41/7390
Almost all of the Python codebase now has type hints. 🎉
JS libraries like jQuery have been updated (thanks to Henrik).
Add (untested) support for ARM64 Linux.
orjson is turned back into an optional requirement (though is still recommended, as it’s faster).
The sidebar code has been moved from from browser.py into sidebar.py, which may break some add-ons.

New in Anki 2.1.40 (Feb 8, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.39 (Feb 3, 2021)

New in Anki 2.1.38 (Dec 28, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.37 (Dec 13, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.36 (Dec 10, 2020)

Notable changes:
Alternate builds have been discontinued. If you are using a 32 bit system, or a macOS version older than 10.13, Anki 2.1.35 is the last release you will be able to update to.
MathJax has been updated to version 3, thanks to Henrik. It should render faster than before. If you were customizing the MathJax configuration using Javascript, you will need to use a new method.
A separate mpv process is now used to play videos on Windows, which should solve issues with playing getting stuck, thanks to Kelciour.
The handling of wildcards and escape characters in search has been reworked to be more consistent, thanks to Rumo.
Early startup messages are now translable, thanks to Abdo.
When cards are rescheduled in the browse screen, a review entry log is now created.
The main card area is now focused instead of the bottom area during review, which allows using the keyboard to scroll, thanks to Henrik.
Bugfixes:
Fixed corrupt indexes when checking database.
Fixed duplicate search when sort field is not first field (thanks to Abdo).
Fixed error when switching to note type with fewer fields.
Fixed invalid utf8 in notes when checking database.
Fixed invisible scrollbar in night mode + browser.
Fixed issues with “find duplicates” (thanks to Abdo)
Fixed some issues with adding/renaming decks (thanks to Cecini).
Other minor fixes.
For developers:
Anki is now built using Bazel. This leads to more reliable builds, and reduces the number of dependencies you need to manually install. Please see docs/ for updated build instructions, and report any issues you encounter on the user forums.
The minimum Python version has been updated to 3.8.
The wheels available on PyPI support both Python 3.8 and 3.9.
All translations have been migrated to Fluent.
Normal and night mode theming now uses CSS variables, making it easier to override in add-ons.
The congrats screen, burying/suspending, filtered deck building/emptying, browser sidebar, and card reposition/reset have been reworked. If you were modifying them in an add-on, your add-on may need updating. For the congratulations screen, see the new webview_did_inject_style_into_page hook

New in Anki 2.1.35 (Dec 10, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.34 (Sep 25, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.33 (Aug 31, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.32 (Aug 25, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.31 (Aug 24, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.30 (Aug 9, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.29 (Jul 28, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.28 (Jul 20, 2020)

A reworked graphs screen:
Rewritten with new graphing tools for more interactivity.
Graphs can now be displayed for arbitrary searches.
Added a calendar/heapmap view.
If you need them for add-ons, the old graphs are currently still accessible with a shift+click on the Stats button.
Reworked syncing:
Normal syncs and media syncs can operate in parallel, speeding up startup and shutdown.
Normal syncs no longer need to close open windows like the Browse screen, or close & re-open the collection.
Full syncs now show a progress bar.
Full syncs can now be cancelled, and both normal and full syncs cancel more quickly.
Card generation changes:
Card generation now supports negated conditionals, and a mix of required and optional fields.
When adding/importing, if a normal note doesn’t generate any cards, Anki will now add a blank card 1 instead of refusing to add the note.
Please bear in mind that if you take advantage of these features, older Anki clients may report the cards are blank, or try to clean them up when you use the Empty Cards feature.
Cloze numbers over 499 are no longer supported.
Card template screen:
Changes are now accumulated, and can be saved or discarded when you close the screen.
The front, back, and styling are no longer shown at the same time. You can switch between them with ctrl+1/2/3 or cmd+1/2/3.
Added a search bar to search for text in the template or styling.
Added a dropdown to change the previewed cloze number.
Added a checkbox to toggle the filling of empty fields for preview.
You can now delete a card template even if some notes are only using that template - they will be given a blank card 1 instead.
Scheduling:
The deck list no longer caps counts to 1000.
The overview and study screen no longer cap counts to 1000.
The deck list will no longer show a parent count higher than the limit set on the parent.
Empty cards screen:
Notes will not be deleted by default.
Empty cards are grouped by note type.
Empty cards can be clicked on to reveal them in the browse screen.
Database check:
Notes with the wrong field count are now recovered instead of being deleted.
Notes with missing note types are now recovered instead of being deleted.
Notes with missing cards are now recovered instead of being deleted.
Unicode normalization:
If you are studying rare CJK characters and wish to prevent them from being converted into modern equivalents, the following in the debug console will stop Anki from normalizing note text.
mw.col.conf["normalize_note_text"] = False
The standard Mac build currently does not support native dark mode. If you previously enabled it from the terminal, please undo the change with the following terminal command:
defaults write net.ankiweb.dtop NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes
Other changes:
Performance improvements to a number of screens.
Fields screen now accumulates changes, which can be saved or discarded when you close the screen.
Updated a few screens to show progress bars instead of hanging the UI.
The standard builds now use Qt 5.15.
Audio player on Windows has been switched back to mpv. Please report any issues you have playing audio files/videos.
Fixed is:review not including relearning cards.
Scroll media log to bottom at start (thanks to Kelciour)
Update local media server (thanks to Evandro).
Use Qt colour picker on Linux (thanks to Andreas).
Add edited:x search for matching notes edited in last x days.
Improvements to mpv handling (thanks to Kelciour).
Windows build fix (thanks to Evandro).
Clearer error message on failed regex search.
Find & Replace remembers input (thanks to Evandro).
Code improvements (thanks to BlueGreenMagick, Thomas and Andrew).
Fixed ‘&’ being changed in image filenames in HTML editor.
Fixed exports getting broken by Windows carriage returns in note fields.
Fixed deck deletion, and allow “deleting” the default deck (it comes back empty).
Card layout screen divider can now be adjusted (thanks to Evandro).
Fixed duplicate rendering in card layout screen (thanks to Evandro).
Fixed off-by-one in field drag&drop (thanks to BlueGreenMagick)
Various other fixes, including contributions from BlueGreenMagick, Arthur, neitrinoweb and kenden.

New in Anki 2.1.27 (Jul 20, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.26 (May 11, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.25 (May 8, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.24 (May 8, 2020)

Searching:
You can use w:something to search on word boundaries, eg:
w:dog
search for “dog” on a word boundary - will match “dog”, but not “doggy” or “underdog”.
w:dog*
will match “dog” and “doggy”, but not “underdog”.
w:*dog
will match “dog” and “underdog”, but not “doggy”.
You can now use re:something to search via regular expression, eg:
"re:(some|another).*thing"
find notes that have “some” or “another” on them, followed by 0 or more characters, and then “thing”
re:d{3}
find notes that have 3 digits in a row
When searching by regex, unicode case folding is used, so searching for re:über will show a card that has “Über” on it.
nc:something (short for “no combining (characters)”) can be used to search while ignoring accents, eg nc:uber will match both “über” and “Über”. This behaves the same way as the “Ignore Accents” add-on, but is about 16x faster.
You can now sort on the deck, card template, note type and tags columns.
You can now use wildcards when limiting the search to a field, eg field*:something.
You can now use wildcards when searching for a card template or note type by name.
rated:x searches are now capped to a year instead of a month.
You can now escaped double-quotes in a search - eg "foo"bar"
Single-quote searches are no longer supported.
Because the searching code has been rewritten, add-ons that modify the search code will need to be updated to support 2.1.24. It is no longer possible to override the Finder class - add-ons will need to use the new hooks in the browser screen to either rewrite the search text, or perform their own lookups instead. The Advanced Browser add-on has already been updated, and can be used as an example of how to accomplish things in 2.1.24.
Non-wildcard searches now do full unicode case folding (eg ‘tag:masse’ matches ‘Maße’).
Wildcard searches do simple unicode case folding.
The tag list in the Browse screen now uses unicode case folding.
macOS dark mode handling:
Anki now solely relies on the night mode setting in the preferences to decide whether to show in light or dark mode. Some users wanted to run Anki in light mode while keeping the rest of their system dark, and there were various display problems when dark mode was changed after Anki started that couldn’t be easily worked around.
Users who only use dark mode, and preferred the native look of widgets in dark mode, can achieve the previous appearance by running the following command in the terminal:
defaults write net.ankiweb.dtop NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool no
And the following in the debug console:
mw.pm.meta["dark_mode_widgets"] = True
Database changes (mainly of interest to add-on developers):
Anki now uses Rust’s sqlite libraries instead of Python’s.
The ‘db’ object on the collection retains most of the same API as before, minimizing the amount of immediate code changes that are required.
Custom sql functions are no longer supported, and named DB arguments (eg “where id = :id”) are deprecated.
The old database code remains in db.py, and add-ons can continue to use it for accessing their own databases.
The database is now behind a mutex, and can be safely accessed from a background thread.
Various screens like the database check have been updated to run on a background thread, so they no longer lock up the UI while they’re running.
The database progress handler has been removed. Anki previous had sqlite call back into Python periodically during long-running DB operations so it could drain the UI queue, but this would vary in choppyness depending on the type of DB operation being performed, and it was the cause of some crashes in the past. Add-ons that perform long-running operations should instead use mw.taskman.run_in_background() or their own threading solution moving forward.
Other changes:
A tweak which should fix some broken add-ons from preventing the collection from being loaded.
Add socks support to media sync.
Allow dragging fields to change their position (thanks to BlueGreenMagick).
Allow selecting add-on config help text (thanks to ijgnd).
Allow the type answer arrow to be styled (thanks to Evandro).
Anki will now wait for a media sync to complete or be aborted before closing the collection.
Build improvements (thanks to Evandro).
Changed the way cloze deletions in RTL fields are handled, which should address some corner cases.
Clean up the previewing code (thanks to Arthur). Add-ons that modify the preview screen will need updating.
Don’t force a full sync when DB check finds cards with a high due number.
Don’t show a popup when a network error occurs while syncing media.
Fixed a case where decks could be sorted incorrectly (thanks to Arthur).
Fixed a useless log file being created when exporting.
Fixed add-ons with multiple branches not updating properly.
Fixed an error that could occur when performing an operation in the browse screen then immediately closing it.
Fixed Anki closing after a full sync on collection load.
Fixed current card sometimes not being centered when searching.
Fixed deck_browser_did_render hook.
Fixed editor buttons not being highlighted (thanks to Simone).
Fixed interface getting stuck when a corrupt collection was encountered.
Fixed media sync waiting forever when connection dropped.
Fixed progress dialogs failing to appear in a timely manner.
Fixed tag searches in custom study (thanks to zjosua).
Fixed the collection_did_load add-on hook.
Fixed the wrong language shown in the preferences screen for some languages.
GitHub now checks Windows and Mac builds as well (thanks to Evandro).
Handle renamed cloze fields when previewing (thanks to BlueGreenMagick).
Ignore .DS_Store files in the media trash folder.
Improved invalid HTML/JS error messages (thanks to Evandro).
Improved the handling of deck deletions (thanks to Arthur).
Improvements to debug console (thanks to BlueGreenMagick).
Left-align tags in the browser.
Media syncs no longer take time to abort.
More hooks (thanks to Arthur).
Moved the scheduling options in the preferences to a separate tab, so options fit on the screen even on devices with small screens.
Prepare for uploading releases to PyPI (thanks to Evandro).
The media check will now fix file references in fields that broke because a filename was shortened as part of a sync.
Updated config handling. While there should be no immediate breakages, if you’re an add-on author and store lists or dicts in Anki’s config, please see 676f4e74a.

New in Anki 2.1.23 (May 8, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.22 (May 8, 2020)

Media syncing improvements:
Media syncing now happens in the background, so you can continue using Anki while the media sync completes.
Aside from syncing at open and close, Anki will sync any media changes every 15-20 minutes.
You can click on the sync button while the spinner is active to monitor progress.
Long filenames and problematic characters should be handled smoothly now, instead of causing syncing errors.
Anki should no longer sometimes forget to download files when a media sync fails due to network errors.
When media files are added within Anki, Anki now marks them in the database immediately, which can make things faster for people with slower disks if they are not modifying the media folder externally.
Media check improvements:
The Check Media function now shows progress, and can be interrupted.
There is now a separate button to generate missing LaTeX.
If LaTeX fails to build, the problem card will be revealed in the browse screen.
When Anki finds files that are too long or would cause errors on some operating systems, it will automatically rename them and update your notes to point to the new filename.
Both media sync and the media check now place deleted files in a media.trash folder inside your profile, instead of placing the files in the system trash. You can use the Check Media function to either empty the trash, or restore the deleted files back to your media folder.
Other changes:
You can now export .apkg files with the V2 scheduler enabled.
Add “New #” prefix to the due column for new cards.
Fixed audio getting stuck on Windows.
Clear the audio queue when moving between cards with autoplay off.
Fixed play icons not appearing in browser preview when autoplay off.
Show next learning card due time, and count for today.
Restored grey styling of zeros in the deck list that got lost in the night mode changes.
Improvements to the readability of the scheduling code (thanks to Arthur)
Add-on hook improvements, thanks to Glutanimate and Arthur.
Fixed fields containing a filename with non-Latin text from being corrupted when editing HTML (thanks to Evandro).
Support for validating add-on config schemas (thanks to Arthur).
Removed the ‘too many decks’ message in the deck list screen.
Fix for issue playing audio from flash drive.
Fixed Anki getting stuck when importing an invalid file.
More type hints in the code (thanks to Alan).
Improvements to the build process and building on Windows (thanks to Evandro).
Support ‘/‘ separator in add-on web paths on Windows (thanks to BlueGreenMagick)
Fix tags that are in the wrong encoding as part of the DB check.
Hide the default deck in more cases (thanks to Arthur).
Updates to the translation infrastructure, including tweaks to the way the answer buttons and the review history screen show intervals.

New in Anki 2.1.21 (May 8, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.20 (Feb 14, 2020)

Audio changes:
Text to speech is now supported in card templates.
Audio buttons are now shown on the card, and can be turned off in the preferences. They will show for both regular audio and text to speech.
You can customize the size and colour.
Added shortcut keys in the review screen to pause and jump forward/backward 5 seconds.
Anki now starts a new copy of mplayer for each audio file on Windows, which avoids the need to create temporary files.
Added an option in the preferences to not interrupt the currently playing audio when answering.
Fix multiple spaces in filenames from getting truncated when pasting sound files.
Night mode:
The night mode option in the preferences screen now turns the interface dark as well.
On macOS, when the system is in dark mode, Anki will switch to night mode automatically.
Invert LaTeX in night mode (thanks to zjosua).
Some of the colours in areas like the graphs could be improved - pull requests with included screenshots of the changes would be appreciated.
Add-on changes:
Anki will now check for add-on updates automatically once a day.
Disabled add-ons are now included in the check as well.
Add-on authors can specify the minimum and maximum Anki version they support, and add-ons will be automatically disabled when running on an unsupported Anki version.
Add-on authors can now upload different add-on versions for different Anki versions, and Anki will download the correct one.
A new hook system for add-ons - please see here.
For add-on authors, some more examples using the new hook system are available on the following page, including ported versions of the clickable tags and additional card fields add-ons: https://github.com/ankitects/anki-addons/tree/master/demos
Other changes:
Added the ability to export selected notes from the Browse screen (thanks to Arthur).
Updated to a newer toolkit.
Emptying a filtered deck in the V2 scheduler no longer unsuspends suspended cards inside it.
Fix incorrect delay being logged when Hard is used on the first learning step in the V2 scheduler.
The editor no longer modifies percent-escaped text outside of image tags.
Fix an extra linebreak being left in a field when an image is attached to an empty field.
Tweaks to the tag updated notes feature (thanks to Erez)
Fix cards being sorted in wrong order when added after the note was created (thanks to Arthur)
Disabled elastic scrolling in webviews to work around a Qt bug.
Don’t filter em/strong tags when pasting.
Fix error when double-clicking the open profile button.
Constrain image width in editor to the field width.

New in Anki 2.1.19 (Jan 16, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.18 (Jan 14, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.17 (Jan 13, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.16 (Jan 13, 2020)

New in Anki 2.1.15 (Aug 22, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.14 (Jun 27, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.13 (May 20, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.12 (Apr 23, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.11 (Mar 11, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.10 (Mar 7, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.9 (Feb 21, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.8 (Feb 21, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.7 (Feb 21, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.6 (Feb 21, 2019)

The standard version:
Is built with the latest toolkit, which fixes various issues.
Changes the undo shortcut back to Ctrl+Z or Command+Z like Anki 2.0.
Includes a separate anki-console.exe executable in the Windows build that may be useful for add-on authors.
Includes support for the fcitx input method and a gtk2 theme in the Linux build.
You can switch between the standard and alternate 2.1.6 without problems. If you move back to a previous Anki 2.1 release, your sync login details and window positions will be lost, and will need to be set again.
The standard version has updated requirements:
The Windows build only supports 64 bit Windows 7 or later, and will not run on a 32 bit install.
The Mac build requires macOS 10.12 or later.
The Linux build requires a Linux distribution from approximately 2016 or later.
The alternate version will run on:
Windows 7 32 bit or 64 bit installs
Mac 10.10 or later.
A Linux distro from around 2014 or later.
The alternate version is similar to previous Anki 2.1 releases, and is built with an older toolkit. It will run on some older systems that the standard version will not, but as it is not as up to date, it may be missing bugfixes and security improvements that the standard version includes.
In addition to the toolkit upgrade, there have been some changes in Anki itself:
Improvements to the Browse screen and flagging:
Search text is normalized, which fixes problems searching for unicode characters with multiple possible encodings.
The selection is now partially transparent, allowing you to see the underyling colours of the rows.
The screen doesn’t scroll when performing actions that don’t change the selection count.
Flags now toggle on and off, and the separate clear flag action has been removed.
The second flag is now orange instead of purple.
Find&replace now only shows fields relevant to the notes you’ve selected, and is case insensitive.
Fix card list not updating when editing HTML.
Other:
Importing apkgs is now more verbose about how notes have been handled.
Prevent errors caused by the user adding a field reference to itself on a field.
Better handle issues with the deck list, such as decks that are missing a parent deck.
Anki should now be able to function even if a system proxy is configured for localhost connections.
Fix font size being copied when pasting between Anki fields with bold text.
Pasting a link with shift held down now creates a clickable link.
Fixed an issue with the bulk remove tags option where tags with similar names could be removed as well.
Fixed an error that occurred with very long filenames on Windows.
Fixed an issue running latex commands on some Linux installs.
The Browse screen’s sidebar now defaults to on.
Fixed a race condition that could cause two copies of Anki to open.
When adding media to cards, Anki now will automatically rename the filenames if they’re too long.
The experimental scheduler now regularly checks if new learning cards have become due.
Handle invalid add-on config (thanks to Arthur).
Enforce template ordering when card templates are reordered after card creation (thanks to Arthur).
Don’t change deck when Esc pressed in deck chooser (thanks to David).
Fix a problem on initial startup when English not the default language.
Fix busy cursor showing in import results screen.
Fix content overlap when add-ons have added many editor buttons.
Don’t change current note when reopening editor from review screen (thanks to Arthur).
A fix for running on Python 3.7 (thanks to Alexey).
Restore the tooltip for the Fields and Cards buttons in editor.

New in Anki 2.1.5 (Feb 21, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.4 (Feb 21, 2019)

New in Anki 2.1.3 (Aug 31, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.2 (Aug 20, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.1 (Aug 9, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.1 Beta 2 (Aug 8, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.0 (Aug 7, 2018)

New in Anki 2.0.52 (Jun 1, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 40 (May 31, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 39 (May 31, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 38 (May 31, 2018)

New in Anki 2.0.50 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Anki 2.0.49 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Anki 2.0.48 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Anki 2.0.47 (Mar 9, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 36 (Feb 5, 2018)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 27 (Dec 4, 2017)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 19 (Oct 12, 2017)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 18 (Oct 12, 2017)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 17 (Oct 3, 2017)

New in Anki 2.1.0 Beta 14 (Aug 29, 2017)

New in Anki 2.0.46 (Aug 2, 2017)

New in Anki 2.0.41 (Jan 30, 2017)

New in Anki 2.0.40 (Jan 30, 2017)

New in Anki 2.0.38 (Dec 23, 2016)

New in Anki 2.0.37 (Dec 21, 2016)

New in Anki 2.0.36 (May 23, 2016)

New in Anki 2.0.35 (May 23, 2016)

New in Anki 2.0.34 (Mar 28, 2016)

New in Anki 2.0.33 (Oct 12, 2015)

New in Anki 2.0.32 (Mar 25, 2015)

New in Anki 2.0.31 (Oct 20, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.30 (Oct 18, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.29 (Sep 22, 2014)

Fix "app is damaged" message on OSX Yosemite
A new "added" graph that shows how many new cards have been added to the collection.
When exporting notes as text, say the number of notes that were exported, not the number of cards.
Allow tags to be separated with an ideographic space character (eg. Japanese full width space)
Allow closing the edit current dialog with Ctrl-Enter.
Show more info when syncing media, so you can see it’s progressing and get an idea of how long is left.
All the web components in Anki default to accepting focus and allowing copying now, which should fix issues with some screens not allowing copy to the clipboard, such as the card info screen.
Fix a bug where tags were being inserted in place of newlines when importing with html enabled.
Fix a bug when trying to recover from a corrupt profile.
Fix addons being downloaded with double newlines on Windows.
If an existing anki instance is hung, start a new instance when user clicks on anki icon.
A few translation fixes thanks to Derbeth.
Disable a better error message when some ssl errors occur.
Make the tab width in the template editor reasonable.
Strip any formatting when pasting into the template editor, as rich text has no meaning there.
If the computer has no desktop folder, place collection packages in the user’s home directory.
Fix a bug that was allowing nesting other decks under filtered decks.
Fix a bug that was causing templates to get out of sync with field names on
Don’t jump around in the browser’s card list when deleting cards.
On Linux systems that don’t have a documents folder defined, default to ~/Documents/Anki (in English) for the profile folder.
We no longer encode and decode and so on when fields are edited. This should fix the bug where users were having text with percent signs in it being turned into other characters.
Tags that differ only in case are no longer allowed, as tags were sometimes case-sensitive and sometimes not. The case that you use the first time you enter will be used for all future cards added with that tag. If you want to change the capitalization of that tag, you can temporarily remove the tag from all cards and then add it again with the new case.
Ignore >100MB files when syncing instead of having the server throw an error.

New in Anki 2.0.28 (Jul 21, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.27 (Jul 18, 2014)

Searches in the Browse screen can now be saved into the sidebar, and the tab key order has been improved (thanks to Houssam). These changes conflict with previous versions of the Advanced Browser add-on, so please ensure you download the latest version if you use this add-on.
Fixed a bug where a filtered deck with or in it could mistakenly include suspended or buried cards.
Fixed crashes in the alternate Mac build.
The Preview window now has a "replay audio" button, with the shortcut R like in the review screen.
The post-import log now lists the number of notes that were unchanged by a text import. "Unchanged" includes notes that were present in your collection as well as the imported file but were not updated in your collection, whether because the update option was off or they were not changed.
The options menu next to each deck in the deck list now has an "export" button, which opens the export dialog with that deck already selected.
Don’t display the "added duplicate" message multiple times when a note is already duplicated in the collection but only one new duplicate was added.
Fix a bug where Anki was inserting s into the text of imported cards if using quoted multi-line notes, with HTML disabled.
Provide more helpful errors when importing corrupt collection packages or .anki2 files.
Anki now remembers the previous position and size of various dialogs it didn’t previously.
The "suspended" label in the card types graph has been changed to "Suspended+Buried" since that category also counts buried cards.
Anki now makes sure the Get Addons dialog opens at an appropriate size when the system font size is unusual.
Check that saving a statistics image was successful before displaying a success message, and give a warning if Anki doesn’t have permission to write to the desktop.
Give a less confusing error when Anki can’t create a profile folder.
Don’t throw an error when attempting to delete unused media that has already been removed.
Fix for exporting to csv with quotes in a field (thanks to Rubyu)
Tweaks to latex handling which will allow add-ons to switch to pdftex (thanks to Joel)
Round cards/minute stat instead of truncating it (thanks to Markus)
Fix errors when importing Mnemosyne’s latest db format.
Support pasting of m4a urls.
Add a fix for an AnkiDroid bug to the Check DB function (thanks to Houssam)
Fix tooltip colour for inverted colour schemes. (Thanks to Pat)
Don’t trigger help when enter pressed in preferences screen.
Fix a bug on Windows where the main window was left open when a corrupt collection was detected.
Fix error when Anki is running for multiple users on a multi-user machine.
Don’t try to authenticate username and password if user cancels login dialog.
Allow changing case of profile name on Windows.
Update all duplicates when importing in update mode.
Remove initial search text when ctrl-clicking a left panel item.
Fix rounding of cards/minute in stats; use 1 decimal place.
Fix error when exporting w/ non-latin text in profile name.
Prevent profiles from getting out of sync when rename fails.
Update note type on apkg import when only templates have changed
Search terms in the browser and filtered decks can now be separated by a full width space (thanks to Paul)
Catch some rare startup errors on Windows and show them in a dialog box instead of exiting silently.
Media syncing has been rewritten to be more reliable:
It no longer locks the account, so multiple clients can sync media at the same time (but please do not attempt this with the mobile clients yet, as they have not yet been updated). This is also paving the way towards background syncing of media in the future.
The initial sync on a new device can now avoid both sending and receiving files that already exist on both ends.
A large number of deleted files could cause timeouts in the past; this is no longer the case.
When resuming from a connection error, less data needs to be sent than before.
When deauthorizing sync, the media syncing state is reset.

New in Anki 2.0.26 (Apr 23, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.25 (Apr 16, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.24 (Apr 14, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.22 (Jan 30, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.21 (Jan 24, 2014)

New in Anki 2.0.20 (Dec 13, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.19 (Dec 10, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.18 (Nov 14, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.17 (Nov 8, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.16 (Nov 1, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.15 (Oct 25, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.14 (Oct 22, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.13 (Oct 7, 2013)

When importing an .apkg file, existing notes will be updated if they are newer in the .apkg file, and the note types are compatible. Cards are not touched, so existing progress will be retained. This means content authors can now easily distribute not only new content, but updates to existing content as well.
Filtered decks have a new "relative overdueness" sort option that will sort cards by how overdue they are compared to their interval, in the same manner Anki did a few years ago.
You can now show tags as a browser column.
Fix an issue with importing when a filtered deck was selected in the main window.
Don’t treat modified q/a templates as an incompatible note type.
Anki now enforces a standard encoding of media files with non-latin text, which should fix some issues moving media between Mac and non-Mac computers, and will ensure you don’t end up with multiple files in your media folder that look like they have the same filename but actually have a different encoding.
The unused media menu option has been renamed back to "Check Media", and it is now capable of renaming fields and media filenames to ensure they’re consistent.
Fix an issue where dragging files from the desktop on Linux was pasting a URL instead of embedding the file
Fixed a bug where Anki failed to start on Linux distributions with an older Python version.
Anki now allows you to import .apkgs which have been renamed to .zip, as unfortunately some browsers "helpfully" rename the files when downloading them.
The "Find Duplicates" function in the browser now ignores HTML when comparing duplicates, and provides an option to tag the duplicates.
Fix an error in showing an error when downloading addons
Fix < and > in a field causing text to disappear when typing in the answer .
The "study deck" and deck/note type selection windows now remember their size and position.
Fix an issue showing clozes when the user’s mistyped the cloze characters.
Tolerate Windows trash errors .
Fix an error when upgrading some Anki 1 decks.
Separate users on the same machine can now run Anki concurrently.
Anki should no longer have issues starting upon Linux after a previous instance didn’t terminate properly.
Fix some issues with suspending, burying & rescheduling learning cards that could cause a later "download the fix assertion addon" message.
After syncing once, the sync username should become visible in the preferences dialog.
When adding a new column in the browser, scroll it into view.
When adding or importing note types, ensure they have a unique name.
Speed improvements to some text operations, thanks to hssm.
Sibling handling has been reworked, which should better ensure that cards from the same note don’t appear together:
When you answer a card, Anki will automatically bury any siblings that are in the new queue or review queue. Cards in the (re)learning queue can not be buried, but reviewing those cards will cause any new & review cards to be buried.
Cards are no longer unburied when returing to the deck list, but can be unburied with a button on the study overview screen.
To avoid problems during the upgrade period, cards are currently unburied when you sync or close your collection. When all clients have been updated, this behaviour will change so that cards are only automatically unburied when a day has passed. You will still be able to manually unbury them if you wish.
This new behaviour ensures that siblings are spaced even in filtered decks.
Burying of new cards can be disabled in the options if you want to introduce related cards in the same session. If disabled, Anki will try to spread out the siblings like it does in 2.0.12, though like 2.0.12 spacing is not guaranteed and may fail when you edit cards or perform operations that require a queue rebuild.

New in Anki 2.0.12 (Jul 26, 2013)

Changed the way pastes and drag&drops are handled. This should hopefully fix various issues people were having with Google Images, and will now automatically add any images in a chunk of selected text to your collection if you have HTML stripping turned off.
Fixed errors caused by importing notes with a changed schema
Revert a change made in 2.0.9 where Anki would switch the active review deck when a different deck was selected in the add screen. This caused issues where the note type would change invisibly and some people objected to the new behaviour.
Work around a crash when closing Anki on Windows caused by a toolkit bug.
Make sure we always show 3 buttons for cards in initial learning in a filtered deck.
Improve the checking for and stripping of filename characters that can’t be stored on some filesystems.
Fixed an error when pasting media with non-latin characters in the URL.
Don’t throw an error if user adds cloze reference to a non-cloze note type.
Fix error shown when importing csv file with blank first line.
Fix year and all time review graph.
If the user’s recycle bin is broken, just delete the file instead.
Don’t send old backups to the recycle bin.
Fix duplicates not being detected when pasting text.
Fix a bug where the clipboard was being clobbered after the first paste.
When pasting images between fields, don’t try to download them.
Allow includegraphics in LaTeX
You can now view stats on filtered decks.
Warn when prefs.db is corrupt, and catch another corruption case
Allow searches for decks with + in their name.
Work around linux crash on paste of invalid image.
Fix an issue where duplicates were not being detected on paste
Ensure starting ease can’t be set below 130%.
Make sure we include px in stats (thanks to steveaw)
Fix error shown when importing from command line (thanks to Hans)
Fix incorrect instructions to "maintenance" menu (thanks to Soren)
Unused media now shows "no missing media" message in a tooltip (thanks to Julien)
Note: If you use LaTeX for mathematical equations on your cards, and study with AnkiMobile or AnkiDroid, please revert to 2.0.8 (available on the Anki website) until the mobile clients receive an update.

New in Anki 2.0.11 (Jun 14, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.10 (Jun 12, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.9 (Jun 4, 2013)

Improvements to the type answer feature: no more "the correct answer was" text, clearer indications of typed vs correct answer, customizable colours (.typeBad/.typeGood/.typeMissed), monospace by default so input+correct lines up (code#typeans), an example comparison in the Cards dialog, and automatic moving of the answer comparison underneath the Q/A line. Example attached.
The browser now has a preview button that makes it easier to quickly browse previews of cards.
The limit to tags and study a random selection of cards options in the custom study dialog have been merged together into a single new option that allows you to study new cards, due cards or all cards (cram), optionally limiting to particular tags as well.
If Anki detects that the media is out of sync, it will now automatically recover on the next sync. Furthermore, it no longer needs to send files that already exist on each side, so when this change is incorporated into the mobile clients you’ll be able to copy media over to them to avoid a long initial media sync.
When media is deleted via a sync or unused media, it’s now placed in the OS’s trash folder instead of deleted completely. Likewise for rotated backups and profile deletions.
When notes are deleted, their content is logged in a file called deleted.txt in your profile folder.
The filter area when selecting decks or note types now matches on consecutive characters, and uses spaces to separate search terms. So if you had a deck called "German::Verbs", you can search for it with "man verb", but not "grman"
You can now choose a font size > 20px for the card list. It’s not possible to resize the line height for each individual card, so choosing a large font size in one note type will make the line height large for all cards.
Anki should output BRs instead of DIV tags when you hit enter in the editor now, which should make editing the resulting text on mobile clients easier. Note this will only apply to content you add after upgrading.
Card types are removed with an X on the tab instead of an item in More.
Check Database, Unused Media and Empty Cards are now in the Tools menu, instead of a submenu.
Full Sync is now in the preferences, not in the menu.
Syncing now checks to see if the database is consistent prior to syncing, and if it finds any errors, it recommends a database check rather than a full sync.
If a database check finds any errors, it automatically forces a full sync.
When closing the collection, check for corruption. This makes closing Anki and switching profiles a bit slower, but ensures that corruption is detected early so that backups are useful.
If user has Add window open and syncs, ask if they want to keep the content and cancel sync if so.
After uploading a collection, notify user they need to download on other devices.
More verbose sync conflict message.
Shift clicking on a sidebar item in the browser will now OR it with the current search.
Prioritize HTML over images, so pasting from Microsoft apps pastes text again.
Timeboxing now pops up dialog instead of a tooltip, with options to continue or finish.
Don’t import notes multiple times when the note type has been modified
Add mature correct/today stat to graphs.
You can now hold down the shift key while starting Anki to disable add-on loading and automatic syncing (except if you’re on an old Linux distro).
Make sure to update card order when changing, adding or deleting option groups.
Make sure to shuffle after importing txt or apkg files if your deck options say to shuffle.
When exporting to an .apkg with scheduling off (or when sharing a deck on AnkiWeb), new cards now have their current order preserved.
Anki will now warn when you try to add a cloze deletion note without any deletions.
Anki will allow you to cloze delete when a normal note type is selected, with a popup warning instead of an error.
Anki should now run on an unmapped network drive on Windows and display images correctly.
Ctrl+Shift+T (Command+Shift+T on a Mac) now jumps to the Tags entry field.
When pasting from field to field, strip tags that were being inserted by WebKit.
When importing from a text file, include a list of all updated or duplicated notes in the import log.
Fix unused media spuriously reporting unused media with leading underscores.
Fix cloze+latex issue where multiple answer images were generated.
Fix cloze+latex issue where unused media deleted used images and created others.
Fix error when trying to reschedule with min>max
Add scrollbar to About dialog.
Don’t allow images to be dragged (and deleted) from the review window.
Better warning when importing invalid .apkg file
When saving a note, strip quotes from the tags and sort tags in alphabetical order.
Fix an issue with images failing to show up when they had an apostrophe in them.
Fix issues with pasting links to sounds/images where the filenames had non-latin characters or punctuation characters.
Fix issues with pasting invalid links.
Deck descriptions are now always displayed verbatim, and not truncated.
Fix issues with syncing media on a vfat drive.
When inserting a media file that already exists in the media folder, checksum all alternative filenames (thanks to Julien Baley)
Fix a bug where the number of buttons would decrease from 3 to 2 on the second answer of new cards in a filtered deck.
Make it clearer when changing deck options will affect multiple decks.
Fix an issue where invalid filenames were generated when pasting a link to a remote filename with non-latin characters.
Fix an issue where rescheduling of relearning cards into new cards would cause a later "download the fix assertion addon" message.
Allow pasting of a few more audio formats.
Fix main window appearing on top after pasting on Windows.
The show duplicates feature when adding now correctly shows all duplicates in the browser, regardless of their embedded formatting.
Allow canceling of note type selection.
When clicking Add, make sure to reshow Add window if it’d been minimized.
Make desktop folder if it was missing when saving stats to image.
More checks for the Check Database routine.
Fixed a bug where some Windows users were unable to start Anki.
Allow overwriting existing files in export (thanks to Chris Burel)
Fix an error when user comments out type answer field (thanks to Ospalh)
Fixed an issue where a field: search that didn’t match would prevent the search from matching anything.
Handle cloned note types in mnemosyne importer.
Don’t save note if no changes have been made.
Fix an issue with unused media and different file name representations (thanks to Ospalh)
When changing deck in Add window, switch review deck too.
Don’t play audio twice when changing templates
When hitting s on a deck with no due cards, display a tooltip.
Handle non-breaking spaces in furigana markup.
Fix bug where some text was being swallowed in error messages.
Fix a bug where leading whitespace was being cut off in text imports.
Fix inverted sub/superscript shortcuts
Make sure sort field is updated when field is deleted
Allow HTML in Mnemosyne import
Fix downloading of add-ons when running from USB disk
Fix field outline (thanks to Frostschutz)
Workaround a Qt bug that was preventing clicks on the sidebar in the browser (thanks to Frostshutz)
Pauker importer (thanks to Frostshutz)
Added --version option (thanks to Hut)
Fixed an error upgrading very old Anki 1 decks.
Use "question" and "answer" for browser labels, instead of "front" and "back".
When using change deck, select the current deck by default.
When searching in the browser, use double quotes rather than single quotes.
Don’t allow invalid characters in filenames when exporting.
Allow enter to close the change note type dialog.
Fixed a bug where rescheduling learning cards as reviews could cause the cards to be in an invalid state.
If Anki config can’t be loaded, start with new prefs.db
Fixed a bug where Anki would close without saving when it was closed while another window was focused.
Catch another firewall error.
Various other minor fixes.
Add shortcut key for history button
Work around an issue when backspacing over all text that was formatted.
Fix a bug that was causing formatting to be lost when copying between fields.
Fix line disappearing in card layout.
Resize deck options dialog when it’s opened.
Ensure cards have correct due number to make sibling spacing work when importing.
Show profile name in title bar
Make sure we focus first field when adding next note when JP support add-on installed.
Fix a bug where hitting enter in the tags completion list could select the wrong tag.
When studying a filtered card, clicking Add will default to that deck.
Add a hideable warning to the bottom of the deck list when there are over 25 decks.
Fix issues where images with extra properties weren’t being found in unused media.
Don’t copy the implicit max-width property on images when pasting between fields.
Fix a non-rounded number issue in stats
Use correct extension when exporting notes/cards as text.
Fix alignment issues in top and bottom toolbars
Work around a startup problem on misconfigured Windows systems
Ignore sticky fields when checking if blank when add window closed
Allow multiple spaces in type answer
Work around broken images when pasting/attaching on Linux
Fix error when sending non-Latin text to trash on Linux
Fix a timer bug (thanks to Frostschutz)
Fix unicode error on export
Fix enter key in add/remove tags dialog
Only show browser close menu item on mac
Change the way we deal with non-latin chars in filenames on Windows
Include full info on sync error
Fix modification check in note merge
The full sync option should force a sync even if no other changes were made
Various fixes to the Mnemosyne importer
Fix find duplicates feature when fieldname case differs

New in Anki 2.0.8 (Feb 9, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.7 (Jan 29, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.5 (Jan 29, 2013)

New in Anki 2.0.6 (Jan 29, 2013)

New in Anki 1.2.8 (Apr 6, 2011)

New in Anki 1.2.7 (Feb 21, 2011)

New in Anki 1.2.6 (Feb 9, 2011)

New in Anki 1.2.5 (Jan 28, 2011)

New in Anki 1.0 (Aug 6, 2010)

You can now sync all decks at once. When you start 1.0, your settings will be changed to sync all decks at once when the program is opened or closed, instead of syncing as a deck is opened or closed. For now, if you prefer the old behaviour you can go to Settings>Preferences>Network to adjust the settings. Sync on deck open/close may go away in a future release.
Syncing will now detect conflicts. In the past if you forgot to sync, and modified two sides at once, it could lead to incorrect card counts and in some cases lost data. Now Anki will detect such a situation, and ask you which side you would like to keep. You may get a conflict message the first time you sync a deck after upgrading. After choosing a version to keep, modifying the deck, and syncing again, this should no longer happen.
Initial uploads, and uploads after a database check will now ask for confirmation before proceeding. In the past people have accidentally clobbered their online data while attempting to download their deck. This warning should hopefully prevent that from happening in the future.
The 'again' and default button next times are now coloured. This lets you quickly see which button would be chosen if you press space. Users on the Mac and Linux could already see this, but in recent versions of Windows, the default button is not highlighted. If you don't like the colours, you can turn them off in Settings>Preferences>Advanced.
Anki now plays nicely with SQLAlchemy 0.6, which bleeding edge Linux distros are using
The sync shortcut has changed, so that it doesn't conflict with 'redo' in text fields
The interface will no longer lock if you're editing a fact and a duplicate entry is found
Fix card ordering when adding/importing. Multiple card models should now be displayed in the correct order again. If you added material using the previous version, there is a shared plugin available to fix the due dates on previous cards.
The deck is no longer marked modified when you open the add cards dialog
The OSX DMG has been made prettier thanks to Matthew Duggan
'Type in answer' improvements thanks to Bernhard Ibertsberger
Ability to sort by 'first review', thanks to Shawn Moore
Fix for Qt 4.6 HTML issues on some linux distros, thanks to Chris Burel
Updated translations and new translations, thanks to all the translators
Fix close window shortcut on OSX for some windows
Fix an issue where max failed cards would be set to 2 when visiting the deck properties
Fix right click reload while reviewing
When sorting by due date in the browser, consider card spacing
Bigger app icon on Windows
Strip trailing whitespace before adding facts
Catch errors when adding media
Delete media folder when deck is deleted
Open local links on cards in an external browser
Fix LaTeX generation on win32 when there are spaces in path
Fix Python2.6 warnings
Better soundcard autodetection when recording
Fix Settings>Fonts and Colours on qt4.4 on Linux
Fix order of buttons in model properties dialog
Warn the user they're cramming if they try to edit the current card
Clear playing audio when previewing a new card
Support flac, swf and flv on cards
And a bunch of other small fixes

New in Anki 0.9.9.8.6 (Mar 1, 2010)

The labels on the answer buttons are different for new/failed cards. Instead of again/hard/good/easy, you'll see again/good/easy/very easy. While the labels have been changed to reflect common usage, the behaviour of the buttons is the same.
The default button for a new card is now '2' instead of '3'. This makes the handling of new and failed cards more consistent. If you prefer the old behaviour, you can revert to it using a plugin that has been uploaded to the shared plugins area.
A quick DB check is executed when decks are loaded now. This makes loading decks slower than before, but ensures errors are caught immediately. The 'quick DB check' tool has been removed as it's no longer necessary.
Importing has been made more intelligent, and should be more stable now.
Anki will now put downloaded decks in an "Anki" subdirectory of your documents folder, instead of in the documents folder directly. On Linux, they'll go in ~/.anki/decks/.
There are now multiple builds for Windows and OSX, made with different versions of the GUI toolkit. This was done because each version of the GUI toolkit fixes some issues but introduces others.
Progress windows have been made to show after a delay of a few seconds, so for short-lived operations, you won't see a dialog pop up only to disappear again. This also fixes an issue with 'ghost' windows on Compiz/Linux.
The add tags/delete tags windows now let you use return to close them.
Reverse sort order is now available as a button next to the sort list in the browser.
Cloze and preview have been moved up to the top row of buttons, as they are commonly used.
Many translations have been updated, thanks to the kind work of everyone who contributed to the translation page.
The deck browser preserves the modification time on decks when it reads them now, so your backup software won't keep trying to update decks you haven't explicitly opened.
Some crashing bugs have been fixed on Linux. If you are using PyQt4.6 however, you may find things are quite broken. Upgrading to PyQt4.7 is strongly recommended, and you won't be able to use the graphs feature until you do.
Various actions in the browser now leave the selection alone.
Patch from Szabolcs Horvat to remember the input method when switching between fields when adding/editing cards. This saves you having to switch languages manually each time. If you want to use this with languages like Japanese, you will need to make sure you switch between Japanese and a US keyboard, rather than just hiragana and direct-input.
The deck browser will now remember more than 20 decks, for those of you with a lot of decks.
Some of the icons in the browser have been tweaked, thanks to the work of Josh.

New in Anki 0.9.9.8.5 (Aug 9, 2009)

Browser improvements:
Toolbar for quick access to common commands. Right click to enable/disable.
Suspend and Mark are now toggles
Marked cards show up in blue
Inactive cards show up in red (and suspended as yellow)
Importing improvements:
SuperMemo XML importer from Petr Michalec
Fix problems caused by the differences in Mac/Windows/Unix newlines in text files
Fix custom field separator sometimes being reset
Improved translations: Contributing translations is much easier now: just go to launchpad. Anki now ships with translations for 24 different languages. Some of the translations are not complete - please contribute if you can!
Export original media: 'Tools|Advanced|Export Original Media' will copy all your media files into a new directory with their original names (not hashes).
LaTeX handling more robust when sharing decks. If you've used the cache latex option, you'll need to run it again.
Fixed the deck failing to lock on some Linux distros with older DB libraries. Before, if you opened Anki twice on the same file, it was possible for the deck to be corrupted.
Fix the deck being marked as modified on previous upgrade, which could cause the next sync to go in the wrong direction
Exporting facts and cards now exports in creation order
'Generate cards' gives the newly generated cards the fact creation time, so that the generated cards appear soon after the other cards of that fact
Deck is backed up before sync, not just on open
Fixed problem where some shared decks were not readable
Switching between ordered and random new card display is immediate. Selecting twice will reshuffle the cards.
Shared deck browser has a modified date you can sort by
Deck and card stats have been tweaked
When previewing cards, all possible card models are shown
Previously, Anki had 5 year maximum interval cap. This was an arbitrary limit with no evidence to argue for its use, so it has been removed. You can still customize it in a plugin if you wish.
Fix for drag & drop of files in a Gnome environment, thanks to Timo.
'Select fact' in browser much faster
Cache/uncache LaTeX now has a progress bar

New in Anki 0.9.9.4 (Dec 28, 2008)

New audio handling on Windows and Linux. Should fix problems with distortion, sounds playing at the wrong speed, or freezing Anki. Please disable the frequency plugin if you're using it, and please report how the new code works for you. Linux users will need to install 'mplayer'.
More graph improvements (thanks to Timo Paulssen) - a reviews graph that shows the number of new/young and mature cards answered each day, the ability to refresh the graphs, speed improvements, various bug fixes, and colour scheme improvements by Timo's friend 'rageon'.
LaTeX is now integrated into the media support. Exporting a deck with LaTeX will now export any cached images (good for distributing to students or people without LaTeX), and there are new menu items to recache all LaTeX files or delete the cache.
All models now default to recognition only, and don't require input on the rear side. An option in the model properties lets you enable/disable card generation for cards missing an answer.
You can now drag and drop images from the desktop, explorer, or finder.
When answering a failed card, the button defaults to 2 instead of 3
For people who don't like the new Windows theme, you can get the old theme back in the advanced preferences
The menus have been rearranged based on feedback from the forum
Opening a new file will now prompt you for a name to save as.
Spaces and indentation is now preserved, so you can use Anki to study things requiring indentation (such as computer code).
New option to show new cards before cards to review
Japanese reading not generated if contains no kanji
Failed card ETA more accurate (thanks to Nick Cook)
Cursor keys and pageup/down scroll main area (thanks to Samson Melamed)
Fix problems suspending/unsuspending cards in the editor
Add shortcut key has been changed from Ctrl+a to Ctrl+d to avoid conflicting with the standard 'select all' shortcut.
Fix problems with multiple cards being selected when opening editor
In 'open online', don't say 'merge', as that's confusing
Various UI tweaks to make things clearer
When exporting a deck, the stats are correctly deleted now
Translation-related patches (thanks to Niklas Laxstrom)
Default to random order when cramming
Improved README (thanks to Samson Melamed)
Fixed 'undo log' bugs
Fixed bug with save as on Windows
Fixed problems with mass tagging (thanks to Samson Melamed)
Lots of miscellaneous bugfixes

New in Anki 0.9.5.7 (Apr 4, 2008)

New in Anki 0.9.5.6 (Apr 2, 2008)

New in Anki 0.9.5 (Feb 28, 2008)